31 best-selling mystery books like Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea

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Those Empty Eyes

By: Charlie Donlea

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s …

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1. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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3. The Teacher

By: Freida McFadden

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a chilling story of twisted secret… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Teacher book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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6. The Drowning Woman

By: Robyn Harding

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Drowning Woman book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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8. Those Empty Eyes

By: Charlie Donlea

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Alex Armstrong has changed everything about herself—her name, her appearance, her backstory. She’s … read more

Similar categories in Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • drama
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9. The Unquiet Bones

By: Loreth Anne White

4.21

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the … read more

Similar categories in Loreth Anne White's The Unquiet Bones book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Vacancy in Room 10

By: Seraphina Nova Glass

3.75

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

The Most Anticipated 2024 Book Releases by Nerd Daily Most Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2… read more

Similar categories in Seraphina Nova Glass's The Vacancy in Room 10 book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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14. The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)

By: Jess Lourey

4.23

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

Two girls vanished. A woman buried alive. Between two crimes—decades of secrets yet to be unearthed… read more

Similar categories in Jess Lourey's The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1) book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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17. The Wrong Daughter

By: Dandy Smith

4.11

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The phone starts vibrating in my hand. It's my father. He never calls. Pulse racing in trepidation,… read more

Similar categories in Dandy Smith's The Wrong Daughter book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • drama
"That’s the thing with breakups- you aren’t just mourning the person you loved but also the life you planned together. Lost on the wind."

-Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

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18. Please Tell Me

By: Mike Omer

4.15

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

After a year in captivity, a kidnapped child escapes―only to reveal horrific truths that lead her p… read more

Similar categories in Mike Omer's Please Tell Me book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Keep It in the Family

By: John Marrs

4.09

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible se… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"...we're only ever our true selves when we think we are alone."

-John Marrs, Keep It in the Family

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20. The Orphanage By The Lake

By: Daniel G. Miller

4.02

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A MISSING GIRL AN ORPHANAGE FULL OF SECRETS Hazel wants a new life. She’s thirty years old… read more

Similar categories in Daniel G. Miller's The Orphanage By The Lake book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • drama
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21. The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3)

By: Freida McFadden

3.90

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.20

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Kill for Me, Kill for You book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. All the Little Raindrops

By: Mia Sheridan

4.05

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

The chilling story of the abduction of two teenagers, their escape, and the dark secrets that, year… read more

Similar categories in Mia Sheridan's All the Little Raindrops book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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24. Ask for Andrea

By: Noelle W. Ihli

4.10

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

James Carson has gotten away with murder three times. The only thing that might stop him from ki… read more

Similar categories in Noelle W. Ihli's Ask for Andrea book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. Gray After Dark

By: Noelle W. Ihli

4.26

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

A merciless wilderness. A harrowing attack. A desperate escape. When a tragic accident sidelines… read more

Similar categories in Noelle W. Ihli's Gray After Dark book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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27. That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

4.12

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Lally's That's Not My Name book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. The Favorite Girl

By: Monica Arya

3.79

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

Every family has secrets—dark ones, twisted ones, ones they hide. The Ivory family is no different.… read more

Similar categories in Monica Arya's The Favorite Girl book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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29. All the Lies

By: Nicola Sanders

4.00

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

She thought he was the perfect husband. Now she’s running for her life. On the surface, Amy and … read more

Similar categories in Nicola Sanders's All the Lies book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Trust No One

By: Keri Beevis

4.17

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A long, long time ago, you did a bad, bad thing, Now it’s time to pay...’ When I first found t… read more

Similar categories in Keri Beevis's Trust No One book and Charlie Donlea's Those Empty Eyes

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. The Stillwater Girls

By: Minka Kent

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

31 must-read fiction books like Those Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea

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Mary Kubica

3.81

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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Freida McFadden

3.94

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Jeneva Rose

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Lucinda Berry

3.56

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Freida McFadden

3.94

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Jeneva Rose

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Robyn Harding

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